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good-fellowship

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Pleasant sociability; comradeship.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Agreeable companionship; companionableness.

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  • noun the spirit of goodwill that exists among friends; comradeship

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Examples

  • John Pearson became noted throughout his part of Scotland for his gigantic size, and for his hospitality and good-fellowship according to the customs of the day.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Holdsworthys, alone; and, while he met them in good-fellowship, he chummed with none, and formed no deep friendships.

    Chapter I 2010

  • It was contrary to custom and common sense, and while it emphasized good-fellowship, nevertheless, in the name of good-fellowship it must cease.

    Chapter VI 2010

  • He met them in the clubs, and wondered how real was the good-fellowship they displayed and how quickly they would unsheathe their claws and gouge and rend.

    Chapter I 2010

  • Take the haunting malignity of the mercifully now forgotten Nicola McLean on last year's I'm A Celebrity, with her call-centre voice, and her space-hopper boobs, and her thin veneer of perky good-fellowship stretched wafer-thin over bottomless chasms of bitterness, resentment and malice.

    Katie and Peter Stateside : Reality Bites juliette 2009

  • Take the haunting malignity of the mercifully now forgotten Nicola McLean on last year's I'm A Celebrity, with her call-centre voice, and her space-hopper boobs, and her thin veneer of perky good-fellowship stretched wafer-thin over bottomless chasms of bitterness, resentment and malice.

    Archive 2009-05-01 juliette 2009

  • Mr. Bartok is correct that we should encourage moderate Muslims to reject the excesses of the terror-masters, and we should promise any factions who rebel peace and good-fellowship.

    New Dan Simmons Story 2006

  • The traveller seated himself; Thenardier remained standing, and his face assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • The new journal was baptized in floods of wine and wit, with oaths of loyalty, fidelity, and good-fellowship.

    A Daughter of Eve 2007

  • Factious hatreds died out amidst universal good-fellowship, and a banquet, served on the field of battle, crowned our reconciliation with joviality.

    Satyricon 2007

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